Seeking You
Jean-Julien Pous’ Seeking You is an animated love letter to the city of Hong Kong. It presses all the same buttons as Blade Runner and In the Mood for Love, with a touch of Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s gothic style, and though it’s really amazing eye candy, it also smacks of creepy, orientalist expat. Here, an entire Asian city is exoticized, fetishized, and finally anthropomorphized in a rather unsubtle way. Why are so many creepy old European dudes so lecherous when it comes to Asia?
Tagged: Chinese films, Hong Kong
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Janice said | 30 May, 2008
actually the chinese characters mean “seek you” i.e. “seeking you”, i.e. exactly the same as the english name
Gerry said | 31 May, 2008
Sorry. It looked like “wo” at first glance because the second stroke goes right through. Honest mistake. I still think the guy is a creep.
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Jean-Julien Pous said | 28 May, 2008
I just wanted to leave a comment as I stumbled upon this article… I’m 24, French, born in China, and not so creepy-old-orientalist-expat. In fact I first came in Hong Kong as a student to complete my highschool years. I wanted to illustrate a strong desire for the city, and this desire expressed through its intense climate : strong smell, very hot and humid air… Let the viewers make their mind.